The Earth Brokers

Presents the first critical analysis of the Earth Summit and its mission document Agenda 21, providing core source material in an accessible style for students studying global politics, environment and development studies courses.

Autorentext

Pratap Chatterjee is Global Environmental Editor of the Inter Press Service, Washington, DC.,
Matthias Finger is Associate Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York.

Zusammenfassung
Those of us who have watched the process have said that the Earth Summit has failed ... Multinational corporations, the United States, Japan, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund have got away with what they always wanted ... the Summit has ensured increased domination by those who already have power. Worse still, it has robbed the poor of the little power they had. It has made them victims of a market economy that has thus far threatened our planet ... few negotiators realised how critical their decisions are to our generation. By failing to address such fundamental issues as militarism, the regulation of transnational corporations, the democratisation of international aid agencies and the inequitable terms of trade, my generation has been damned." - Wagaki Mwangi, Kenyan, Youth delegate to the Earth Summit

Inhalt

Introduction; Part I The Documents; Chapter 1 Whose Common Future?; Chapter 2 Southern Elites; Chapter 3 Rio and Bust; Part II Non-governmental Organizations; Chapter 4 Telling 'Greens' Apart; Chapter 5 Feeding the Peoples into the Green Machine; Chapter 6 What Did Environmental NGOs Achieve?; Part III Business and Industry; Chapter 7 Promoting Big Business at Rio; Chapter 8 Changing What?; Part IV Finance and Institutions; Chapter 9 Can Money Save the World?; Chapter 10 Institutional Outcomes; Part V Conclusions; Chapter 11 What Now?;